Thursday, February 21, 2013

World Powers to Make “Substantial” New Offer to Iran

France on Thursday confirmed that world powers will make
a “substantial” new offer to Iran in a bid to resolve the dispute over its
nuclear program at talks in Kazakhstan, AFP reported today.

The next round of talks between Iran and P5+1 will be
held on 26 February in Almaty. France has not disclosed any details on the new
offer to Iran.

“We will make a new offer that will contain significant
new elements,” the French foreign ministry's deputy spokesman, Vincent
Floreani, said.

“We hope that Iran will attend this meeting with a
constructive spirit and will be ready to discuss, in detail and with a renewed
perspective, aspects of its nuclear program that remain to be clarified,”
Floreani said. “We want a true exchange, leading to concrete
results.” (AFP, 21 February)

6 comments:

Well, what's the offer? Hopefully it will be in the form of the previous Russian "roadmap". But let's be realistic, expectations are at an all-time low given the recent accounts of U.S. duplicity and outright poor policy by former Bush and Obama administration officials in both National Security and State Department.

I don’t know what the offer is, we’ll know that by next Tuesday. But there will be another major problem aside from what you have alluded to: Iran’s elites are so divided on the issue of accepting a compromise that it would be safe for the leadership to say no to any Western proposal until the June presidential election.

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